Mistral is now selling complete rotary engines. Almost firewall
forward as they bolt to a Lycoming motor mount and come with
a [hydrulic] constant speed [prop] PSRU and FADEC.
Both 2 rotor and 3 rotor...  NA and  turbo.

http://www.mistral-engines.com/index.htm

They will have a booth at OSH.
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Have they corrected the alternator belt access?
As I recall, the psru had to be removed in order
to change the belt.
Archie

Yes I think they have. That was just a backup alternator
anyway. They always had at least two alternators.
One gear driven at the back of the engine.

You can see it in this picture.

--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


Well... almost correct!  The main alternator is at the back of the engine
but is also belt-driven and not gear-driven... although there is a spare
gear drive there.  This one is intended for the high-pressure "common-rail"
fuel pump for our future jet-fueled models, but is free to be used on
gasoline models.

The spare drive Paul marked with an arrow on his picture (same shaft as the
prop governor drive situated on the right side of the PSRU) is for a vacuum
or hydraulic pump, or possibly for an A/C compressor (haven't checked
compatibility with compressor yet).

The issue of the alternator belt on the PSRU is being addressed.  More on
that later...

Francois Badoux,
Mistral Engines

Mr. Badoux,

Are you still making the intakes available to us experimental guys?  My
building buddy, David Staten, has attempted to contact you again via email
to make payment and shipping arraignments, but as of yet, has not received
an email reply.  Would a phone call prove more helpful?

We REALLY look forward to making this a viable option for my Velocity SE
project (and other homebuilders).

The hard work of you and your team with the rotary is appreciated.

Thanks.

All the best,

Chris

P.S. A new aviation friend of mine (he lives in the town in which I am a
police officer), Blain Streeter, says he worked with y'all for a while.  He
seems a great guy who has been very willing to provide insight with our
project.

Christopher Barber

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Well, we wired the payment via paypal/echeck for the Mistral intake.  We are
hoping really hard that they will be able to take a breath and send it to us
before the whole aviation community stops in order to head for Osh.  Must be
even a bigger issue for them coming from across the pond.

But we are really excited as to have this option.  We thought about several
fabrications and even made one, a really heavy one to test the concept, out
of steal tubing, but since the Mistral intake has most of the things
included, David Staten and I think we will feel more comfortable with a
professionally engineered intake.  Now if I can't ACT mature and patient
until it arrives and we can fire up the bird and make real airplane noises
(instead of the fake ones I make now.....brrrroooooooommmmmmm......or should
I say, zoooooom zooooooom zooooooom. <g>.  FWIW.

All the best,

Chris

can't wait, can't wait, can't wait..........


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